The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-25

comrades as vagabonds and scamps and
the scum of humanity, as Benedict Ar
mold was. (Renewed cheers and ap-
plause on the Republican side.) There
was time when Benedict Arnold rode
along the line and when he met with
acclammations of the soldiers eyery
where. Yet, there was another period
in his life when he held an inter
view with an American on English
soil, he not daring to come on
American soil. He asked, what his old
comrades, those who had worn the uni
form of the Continentals in the dark
days of the revolution, thought of him;
what they would do with him if they
should meet him? The reply was:
They would cut off your leg that was
wounded at Saratoga and bury it with
the honors of war. and the rest of your
carcass they would hang on the gib6eU."
applause on the Republican side
Look at the petitions from post after
post upon your desks. In the light of
all these, and the telegram from the
Grand Commander of the Grand ARMY
of the United States. General Fairchild
who tells that this is a bill that
in 1t the substance the Grand Army mas
been demanding for years, should be
passed. The statement of the gentle
man from Wisconsin Bragg that the
Grand Army has repudiated this bill is
as untrue in word and essence as the
greater portion of all his diatribe of
abuse against his own comrades. Cap
plause.) 1t is not an unco nmon thing
for a skilled huhtsman to use decoys;.
so it is that the solid south is the one
that opposes this bill, and that stimu-
lated this veto, and puts forward all of
these northern gentlemen to repre-
sent it. Not one of them for
political reasons, who had the courage
of his convictions, and has dared to
speak here as he will vote. Why?
Because it would challenge attention to
this conspiracy between those that
once were opposed to US, and who are
this country and the metropolitan
press of this country. deny that he
great dailies of the cities speak the
Sentiment of the country. They do
not do it. They are the advocates, the
mouth pieces of the wealth aggregated
in communities where they are pub
lished, and am sorry to say L confess
it with shame] that this same wealth
is opposed to the old soldiers. Yet, it
may not be unwiSe to give a note of
warning here. Who is it is in peril
from disturbance in this land? Where
is it that there is unrest and dis
quiet b. cause of Socii lis n, George
ism, and kindred political vices that
are growing in this country? Where is
it that men and W men go to bill dis
quieted, because they recognize the
presence of the growing enemy in their
midst? 1t is in these same centres of
wealth and these people of all others
need to keep perfect faith with the
soldiery and with the material from
which the soldiers of this country must
come. The safety of the land is in the
conservatism of the country. When
the hour of trial comes. those
appeal to the conservatism IF
the farm and village. Before l sit
down, wish to ask the chairman of
the committee (Mr. Matson) whether he
has in his possession a petition signed
by Grover Cleveland, asking Congress
to pass the service pension bill to put
all soldiers on the pension roll.
Mr.. Matson closed the debate. He
believed it to be his duty as a legislator
to ask the House to pass this bill over
the Presidents veto, but his conscience
and his heart would not permit. He
bad been asked whether the President
had ever signed petition asking that
pension be granted to all soldiers of the
late war? He had in his hand petition
drawn in 1884, which was too long to
read now. 1t was numerously signed,
and, in substance asked that pension
of at least IS month be granted to all
honorably discharged soldiers. 1t con-
tanned this endorsements:
I am sure that the subject of this petition
is worthy of the prompt and careful CON
sideration of Congress and that the fullest
justice should be done to parties in whose
interest this movement ismade.
(signed,) GROVER CLEVELAND.
AS Mr.. Matson concluded nearly
every Republican was on his feet and
as SIR. Matson finished reading the
endorsement, an loud burst of applause
came up from the Republican side OF
the chamber.
The question was then put:
will the House, upon reconsideration,
pass the bill, the Presidents objection
to the contrary notH outstanding, and
it was decided on the negative-yeas
LIS, nays lbs, not Constitutional two
thirds in the affirmative.
Those voting in the affirmative were:
Adams (Illinois), Allen (Massachu-
setts), Anderson (Kansas), Atkinson,
Baker, Bayne. Bingham, Bliss,
Bound, Boutelle, Brady, Browne
Indiana). Brown (Ohio), Brown
(PennsylYania) Brumm, Beck, BuR-
mel, Burleigh, Burrows, Butter
worth. Barnum, Campbell penn
sylyania), Campbell (Ohio), Cannon
Carleton, Caswell, Oonger, Cooper,
Cutcheon. Davenport, Davis, Dingiey, |
Dorsey, Durham, Elbridge, Ely, Evans,
Everhart. Farquhar, FELTON,, Flee"er,
Ford, Frederick, Fuller, Fulston,
Gallinger, Geddes, Gil6llan Golf, eros
yenor. Grout, Guenther. Hale, Han
back, Harmer, Hayden, Haynes. Hen !
derson (Iowa), Henderson (Illinois), !
Hepburn, Herman, Hiestand, Hires, |
Hiscock, Hit, Holman, Holmes, Hop I
kins. Houk, Howard, Jackson, James,
Johnson New York; ~ ohnson lndiana1
Kelly, Ketcham. Kleins, L4aFollette, |
Laird Landes, LAWYER, LeFevre, Leh-
back Iibbey, Lindsey, Little (Oregon),
Lore, Louttit, Lowring, Lyman, Ma
hony, Markham, Matson, Maybqry,
McComos, McKenna, McKinsley, Mar
riam, Willard, Milliken, Moffatt; Nor
Pill. Morrow, Murphy, Niece, Negly, |
Nelson, O'Donnell, O'Hara, Q,Nein |
PENNSYLVANIA. O'Neill, Osborne, Owen.
Parker. PAYNE, Payson, Perkins, Peters,